Established in 2006 Flying Sharks has been flying live marine animals to public aquaria all over the World, from Japan to the USA, Turkey to Dubai, Singapore to Saudi Arabia, all European countries to Russia, and many other locations. We regularly supply ornamental fish and invertebrates in boxes, and frequently move large amounts of animals in large shipping containers by sea, road or air.
All animals are collected by our staff, often in cooperation with commercial fishermen, none of them using environmentally destructive techniques, such as trawling, drift gill-netting or chemicals of any sort. The vast majority of animals are hand collected individually, while some swim passively into traps or get caught by barbless, easily removable, hooks.
Flying Sharks is also proud to boast a predominantly scientific team and fervorously supports research conducted both inhouse or by our "Flying Sharks Research Fund" recipients. All our results (both the good and the not-so-good) are published in peer reviewed journals (check them out in the "Literature" section) and disseminated in scientific meetings all over the globe.
Feel free to get to know us better by touring our "Missions" on the menu on top and don't miss our "Research Fund" area also.
What are we doing
November 11, 2021
Is there anything more beautiful than 2000 Scomber colias, collected by our friends from Tunipex, kept by our esteemed IPMA partners, and then moved by Flying […]
November 6, 2021
Congratulations Dr. Heike Kück, Director of Zoo am Meer Bremerhaven, who just bred the Syngnathus acus we shipped to them a couple of years ago! There’s […]
November 4, 2021
We were delighted to participate in the 7th International Conference on Water Resource and Environment (WRE 2021), hosted in Xi’an (P.R.C.), but wonderful modern technology allowed […]
October 31, 2021
There’s nothing we enjoy better than watching young careers soar, and to feel that we played a small role in that initial flight… Remember our friend […]
October 30, 2021
Congratulations Alison Neilson, who reached out to us, two years ago, asking if we’d support her book “A sea full of life: Visions from the Azores”. […]
October 30, 2021
Congratulations Elena Milanesi, who is doing her data collection at the research station CRIOBE in Moorea Island (French Polynesia) with the Physioshark Project research group (directed […]







